So for the past... however long... I've been using WD MyBook external hard drives.  I like 'em, but they filled up.  Both 4 TB models.  So I was looking for an 8TB model, but the MyBook versions are these huge bloody boxes that are just RAIDs of two 4TB drives put together.  And over 300 bucks.  Meanwhile, the Seagate 8TB "Personal Cloud" is a sleek, discrete box for much less, so I bought that.

But ho ho ho, I had NO idea how LONG it would be to transfer 4 TB of data.  First, I can't just group them all and drag and drop, because the bloody computer starts freezing up after half a day or so, so I have to do the transfers piecemeal.  Are you kidding?  And second, there's the file system.  Look, I lay out my windows and folders in a specific way that's easy to use and pleasing to the eye, I take a lot of pride in that.  I've customized my own interface over the years and I like it.  This stupid thing resets everything into alphabetical order and uniform window size every time I plug it in.  Every time.  That's so aggravating.

I suppose if I was better at combing through mys tuff I wouldn't have to upgrade to the edges (or be able to make do with a 6 TB drive), but I'm a digital packrat.

All right, but my 8 TB MyBook, no fuss no muss.  I plug it in, and it's on, it shows right up on my screen (the other one takes at least ten minutes to do this).  I eject and replug, everything's in the same place it was last time.  Success!  Except now... where's all my icon art?  All my folders have icon art so I know what's in there and so browsing 15 years worth of files is easy on the eyes.  But there aren't any showing up!  Ack!  It's always something.

I think it's just another symptom of the crappy Seagate thing.  250 bucks down the drain, I guess.  Maybe I can return it but I gotta go empty it and clear it out and ****, I dunno.